Wei Bao was also stunned when he heard this, I don't know why Sun Chengzong suddenly mentioned the stubble of the Jinshi examination?

He also offered to go to the Emperor of the Apocalypse to get a way!?

This is a great thing, although Daming's scientific examination is very formal, but it is not completely without loopholes, he and Wu Sanfu participated in Enke alone in Liaoyang City, and the township examination is not a loophole?

Otherwise, with his and Wu Sanfu's knowledge, it is estimated that he will not be able to pass the examination in the next life.

The same is true for the Jinshi examination, if the emperor is willing to help 'cheat', then let alone a Jinshi fame, anything can be obtained.

But why did Sun Chengzong say this well? Why do you suddenly draw such a big sugar cake for yourself?

Wei Bao immediately understood that Sun Chengzong was showing him the way and selling favors to himself!

If you can be a jinshi, you can be upright, and it is very likely that you are still a single-minded person in the Ming court, and it will be easier to control when the time comes, and as a disciple of Sun Chengzong, he has such great strength, and if he gets a jinshi fame, his career will definitely be smooth in the future, and he Sun Chengzong's face will also be bright!

Thinking about this, Wei Bao was sure that Sun Chengzong had good intentions, so he saluted respectfully and said, "Thank you for cultivating your teacher!" ”

"Hehe, it's all as it should be! Xiaobao, you are my close disciple, and I actually treat you as my own son and nephew, as long as you can understand the mind of a teacher. Sun Chengzong patted Wei Bao's arm and said with a smile.

These words made Yuan Chonghuan almost spit out, he was jealous, he secretly thought that Sun Chengzong's grandsons were much older than Wei Bao, how could people treat you as a nephew? You are seeing Wei Bao's strength, and you are desperately throwing good words.

Wei Bao didn't care, smiled and said humbly: "Yes, thank you for the cultivation." If the teacher likes to be in Liaonan, I am the happiest, and I am welcome to stay for as long as I want! However, I hope we can win the Lianshan Pass before February! If I don't win Lianshan Pass, I'm afraid I won't have the kung fu to enter Beijing to prepare for the exam. ”

The examination was the central examination in the ancient Chinese imperial examination system.

The candidates are the lifters of each province, and the admitted ones are called "Gongshi", and the first name is "Huiyuan". One of the imperial examinations of the four dynasties of the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

The so-called test takers will have a total of one place to test science and art. Conducted by the Ministry of Rites, the examination was held in Kyoto. The test was held at the Gongyuan in the southeast of Beijing's inner city. The chief examiner of the examination 4 people (2 people in the Ming Dynasty) is called the total load, and the bachelor who was born in Jinshi, and the officials above the deputy capital of the imperial history below the Shangshu are invited to be filled by the ministry.

The one who will try to take it is called "Gongshi", also known as "Chinese-style Jinshi", and the first name is "Huiyuan". The number of admission places is uncertain, about 300 in the Ming Dynasty, and the admission is proportional to the south, north and middle regions; In the Qing Dynasty, there was no quota, ranging from more than 100 to 2,300 students in each subject, the largest one was in the eighth year of Yongzheng (1730), 406 students were admitted, and the least one was in the 54th year of Qianlong (1789), a total of 96 students were admitted. The number of places to be admitted in each province is determined by the number of candidates and the size and population of the province. After the results of the examination are announced, the Chinese-style candidates will take the palace examination next month.

The Ming and Qing dynasties held an examination in the capital every three years, and the township examination was held in the following year, that is, in the spring of the year of Chou, Chen, Wei and Xu, presided over by the Ministry of Rites, and the emperor appointed the president and vice president, and the provincial people and the Guozi supervisors could take the examination. Also known as the rite and spring, there are three exams, each three days.

Those who pass the examination are all called Gongshi, and the first name is Huiyuan. After the examination, the tribute will be re-examined by the emperor himself, and the best will be selected as the jinshi. The palace examination period is one day, and according to the grades, the first and first, the origin, and the same origin, and then the brown is released. The Qing Dynasty stipulates that every Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei Nian, that is, the next year of the township examination, if the township examination has Enke, the next year will also hold the examination, called the examination Enke.

The exam starts in February.

Sun Chengzong smiled and didn't answer, secretly thinking that you really dare to plan this? Planning to break through Lianshan Pass in two months? Even if an army of 100,000 is attacking, it is enough to choke!

What's more, these under your command are at best the combat power of the peasant army, and they cannot be equal to the official army of the imperial court at all.

Although Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan have seen the strict military discipline of Wei Bao's army, but the sickle, axe, hoe, and other farming tools used by farmers for farming are weapons, which is too much for Wei Bao's army, so that they do not regard Wei Bao's 'army' as very high, which is also beneficial to Wei Bao, if Wei Bao is really like an independent kingdom in every aspect, especially if the army is like an independent kingdom in this aspect, then it is strange that the Ming court still cares about Wei Bao!

Although southern Liaoning is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, after all, it was once taken away by Jiannu, and now it has been taken back by Wei Bao, and the control will be much more relaxed than other places in the Ming Dynasty!

Rigid, bureaucratic system is like this, and once something, especially the system, is established, it is very difficult to change.

In the Ming court, the southern part of Liaoning has almost been excluded from the Ming administration, and in their eyes, the enemy-occupied area is not even as good as a vassal state.

The Ming court will pay attention to the affairs of Korea, but it will never pay much attention to the areas controlled by Jiannu.

The Ming court will think that these are the affairs of the border army, so whether it is Mao Wenlong, or the border army of eastern Liaoning, or the side of southern Liaoning, how you make trouble, it is all managed by the Jiliao Governor's Mansion, and the Ming court is not very good at asking questions.

The next day, Wei Bao arrived at Qingtaiyu with the president's guard and escort team, and he ordered the 10,000 new troops stationed in Qingtaiyu to be in place the first day.

These new troops, mobilized from among the young and middle-aged peasants, were very easy to form, which was a matter of Wei Bao's words.

And it's getting easier and easier, like when Jiannu first started to fight in the Jinzhou area, the common people refused to obey, refused to transfer, hid in the mountains, and were killed a lot by Jiannu.

At that time, many people were afraid to die when they mobilized the people to help fight the war, and even if they believed that heaven and earth would be able to give generous pensions and get good rewards, not many people dared to fight hard.

However, with the victory of the Bao Army, they were able to take over the cities of Jiannu one by one, and the mobilization work became easier and easier.

When the Baojun will fight Jiannu in southern Liaoning, and then issue a notice to recruit soldiers, it will not be that the people can come if they want to, but also after a round of relatively strict, harder indicators of screening work, the threshold for entering the Baojun is getting higher and higher, because this is the official establishment of the Living Heaven and Earth Society, a springboard that is the easiest for the people.

Otherwise, if you want to pass the assessment, you must not only have good cultural achievements, but also perform well in the local area, and you will also review the person's loyalty to the Tiandihui and President Wei, and the procedures are very cumbersome and very difficult.

In short, although there is no country, all aspects of Wei Bao's jurisdiction have completely existed in the form of an independent kingdom.

Wei Bao's temporary residence in Qingtaiyu is the residence of the original Mao Wenlong's guards here, and it is said to be a mansion, but it is actually just a larger courtyard.

This is why Wei Baojun has such a high efficiency, and can build a large wooden house in a short period of time for the army to live in the city, otherwise the small Qingtaiyu garrison has an upper limit of 5,000 people, and there will be no more than 10,000 troops stationed at all. There are not so many places to live.

The 10,000 new troops stationed at Qingtaiyu and Tianshui stations, as well as the 30,000 troops stationed on the outskirts of Lianshan Pass, are in full swing for training, and the army guards and escort units are also nervously replenishing their troops and working hard for training.

The Jiannu side is also stepping up the deployment of troops and horses.

A few days later, another day was the Spring Festival, the traditional festival of the Chinese people, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, President Wei received news that Nurhachi had arrived at Lianshan Pass and brought an army of eight thousand!

Jiannu's strength in Lianshan Pass suddenly recovered to more than 10,000 people, reaching an army of 11,000!

This is very shocking news for Baojun and Tiandihui, as well as President Wei!

Wei Bao's hatred, although Jiannu is short of food, but in the end he is rich! In this era, nomadic individuals were the main source of income, and the financial resources of one herdsman were worth ten farmers!

Jiannu has been living by burning and looting for a long time, and every family has slaves and a large number of cattle and sheep, and the financial resources may not be enough!

Although the population of Jiannu has always been around seventy or eighty, and when the Ming Dynasty collapsed, there were at most about one million people, but their actual financial resources can be worth tens of millions of Han people! If you don't have this strength, even if pie falls from the sky, Jiannu will not have the strength to grasp it, and you will not have the strength to enter the Central Plains.

In this era, President Wei will no longer rely on speculation and paper data to measure the combat and financial resources, manpower, and material resources of the two as in modern times.

"Gather 70,000 troops at once! The number of people in the camp outside Lianshan Pass reached 100,000! "Wei Bao gave an immediate order!

He didn't want to rely on the number of troops and Jiannu to fight for consumption, it was not cost-effective for their side with poor combat power, and Wei Bao did not plan to hit Jiannu's territory, he knew that no matter how many people he sent to enter the Shengjing area of Jiannu, he would enter the meat grinder, and there would be no return, so he would not make the mistake of the Ming Dynasty in the battle of Salhu, and use the tactics of adding fuel to Jiannu's head.

If it is just to stabilize the defense of southern Liaoning, after taking Lianshan Pass, there are actually seventy or eighty thousand people!

Now after the increase in troops, plus the garrison troops in various parts of southern Liaoning, the total strength will reach at least 1670,000 people, and Wei Bao does not want such a large number of troops.

"Yes, I'll arrange it right away." Wu Xuexia immediately agreed.

"It seems that Nurhachi is planning to not let us have a good year, maybe he will have to fight with us again in the next few days! The old slave is probably angry. Wu Xuexia said with a smile.

"It's useless for him to get angry, even the number of the camp outside Shanguan has increased to 100,000, plus the 20,000 defenders of Qingtaiyu and Tianshui Station are contained, and there are still 50,000 or 60,000 garrisons scattered throughout southern Liaoning, so many soldiers and horses, he wants to fight back one city after another, even if he uses the seven or eight hundred thousand people of his entire Houjin, it can't be done!" At this stage, Wei Bao is already very confident!

Even if he doesn't think that he can take Lianshan Pass and completely drive Jiannu out of southern Liaoning, Wei Bao won't worry too much about being driven out of southern Liaonan by Jiannu! Because war is the best catalyst, not only to catalyze and stimulate economic development, but also to catalyze the common people to unite under the Heaven and Earth Society!

Wei Bao's Heaven and Earth Society is not the Ming Dynasty, not a corrupt government composed of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but a new, honest and honest radiant and highly vital new regime!

At this point, Wei Bao is very confident!

"But if we can't take Lianshan Pass, and we will consume it so much with Jiannu for a long time, let's not do anything, and don't want the people to live a good life." Wu Xuexia was a little melancholy, "Jiannu is already an independent imperial court, but we are just a business, no matter how big a business is, it is still a business." ”

Wei Bao looked at Wu Xuexia, "What?" What are your thoughts? You want to persuade me to call ......"

Wei Bao didn't finish the word "emperor", pointed to the top of his head, and the meaning was expressed.

Wu Xuexia hurriedly shook her hand in a panic, "I didn't say that, do you have such thoughts?" ”

"Hehe, I didn't, I thought you did, so what do you mean?" Wei Bao laughed.

"I want to say that we don't have the support of the Ming Dynasty, so if we are consumed for such a long time, I'm afraid we won't be able to get Jiannu sooner or later, right?" Wu Xuexia said euphemistically, and did not say that she would lose to Jiannu sooner or later.

Wei Bao understood what Wu Xuexia meant, and said confidently: "We have the support of millions of Liao people!" Remember, whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, and whoever has the support of the people is the most powerful! No matter how strong Jiannu is, no matter how resistant the water and grass in the north are to natural disasters, and no matter how bad the environment of the Han people who live on cultivated land is, as long as we establish this belief, we will be able to defeat Jiannu sooner or later! ”

Wu Xuexia hummed softly, "Then I'll go to arrange the conscription, there is a press conference this afternoon, you have to attend it in person, let me remind you." ”

Since the large-scale eradication of illiteracy, Wei Bao attaches great importance to education and publicity, and there will be an official Tiandi daily newspaper, in addition to this, there are also local newspapers and industry newspapers in various places, and there have been fifty or sixty newspapers, all of which have been produced in a few months.

In addition to reprinting the major news of Tiandi Daily, it will also explore some local or industry news, and there will be a lot of advertisements.

As far as the news newspaper is concerned, Wei Bao's jurisdiction has come to a cross-era position, because of Wei Bao's guidance, in fact, the level of media and newspapers in Wei Bao's jurisdiction has reached the level of the twentieth century after 1900!

Wei Bao attaches great importance to the power of education and propaganda and the media, and believes that these are the shortcuts to open up people's wisdom.

"Okay, I remember, did you invite Inspector Sun to attend?" Wei Bao asked.

"Invited, but the Inspector still doesn't seem to understand what so many of our newspapers do, and he thinks it's the same as the imperial court's newspaper." Wu Xuexia said with a smile.

"Di Bao" is also known as "Di Bao" (also known as Di Banknote), and has the name of "Chao Bao", "Article Newspaper" and "Miscellaneous Newspaper", all four use the word "Bao", it can be seen that it is a kind of annunciative news used for notification, and it is a news copy specially used for the imperial court to transmit documents and political information about the government and government.

Di Bao was the world's first newspaper, an official newspaper that conveyed emergency military information, but this kind of newspaper did not live long and soon ceased to operate.

As far as the age of the newspaper is concerned, China's "Di Bao" appeared in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty around the second century BC, about a century earlier than the "Daily Chronicle" of the Roman Empire.

From the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, although the name of Di Bao changed frequently, its circulation was never interrupted, and its nature and content did not change much.

With the invention and development of papermaking, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, China made paper with plant fibers, and "Di Bao" has been copied with paper, so that "Di Bao" has been further developed and more convenient for distribution and transmission.

In the Tang Dynasty, due to the improvement of post roads, the transmission of "Di Bao" was faster.

According to historical records, the counties of the Han Dynasty and the feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty all set up "residences" in Beijing, and their role was equivalent to that of later generations of news agencies in Beijing, focusing on conveying the news of the government.

"Di Bao" was originally copied by the imperial court, and then posted at the palace gate, and copied publicly, so it is also called "palace gate copy" and "Yuan door copy", which is actually the earliest way of news release.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (713-755 AD), the earliest written record of Di Bao was Sun Chen's "Jingwei Collection: Reading Kaiyuan Miscellaneous Newspapers". It is recorded that on a certain day, the Beijing officials performed a big salute in the south of Anfu Building. One day, the emperor personally ploughed the field and performed nine push salutes. One day, the emperor returned from Dongfeng, the reward was poor, etc., Kaiyuan Miscellaneous News was just a title added by Sun Chen himself, not an official name.

In the Song Dynasty, profit-making merchants who specialized in copying newspapers for sale appeared. Officials are willing to spend some money to buy it in order to save trouble. Probably later, because it could be purchased for money, there was no need to copy it.

In the Song Dynasty, the publication time of Di Bao tended to be fixed, and the Ming Dynasty set up a general administration department dedicated to the publication of Di Bao to manage the publication and distribution of Di Bao.

In the late Ming Dynasty, during the Chongzhen period, "Di Bao" changed from hand-copied or woodcut printing to movable type printing, and the scale was larger.

During the Qing Dynasty, Di Bao had a larger circulation, and later changed its name to Beijing Daily, and became a newspaper that could be read by officials, scholars, and even civilians.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a "Beijing Daily" in addition to the Di Copy, and the "Beijing Daily" had a special newspaper room to manage and operate, and became a distribution department with a certain scale, and began to have the prototype of a preliminary newspaper.

The Qing Dynasty cabinet set up a special organization called "copy room" outside the Donghua Gate in Beijing, and every day the newspaper office sent people there to copy the news released on the day, called "palace documents". This kind of "newsprint," which is printed as a single page without a cover, is called "Gongmen Copy," and it is mostly issued in the evening and sent to be read; it is very similar in time to modern evening newspapers, and in terms of nature and level, it is very similar to the "Great Reference" and "Internal Reference" for high-ranking cadres to read.

The "Beijing Daily" is composed of three parts: "Gongmen Copy", the Decree and the Fold, because the number of words in the Folds is large, the typesetting is time-consuming, and it needs to be completed in the evening to complete its printing and binding, and it is issued the next day, and the "Beijing Newspaper" printed in half and folded and bound together is very similar to the daily newspaper issued now.

In 1912, Di Bao or Jing Bao was published until the abdication of the Qing emperor, when it ceased to be published.

Both China's Di Bao and the Western Daily Chronicle are ancient media, and although they have the rudiments of modern newspapers, they are still very different from the newspapers in people's common concepts.

The fifty or sixty newspaper publications that appeared in Weibao's jurisdiction already possessed all the characteristics of a modern newspaper.

Modern newspapers have three main characteristics, namely: publishing news; Published regularly; Issued by the public.

The middle of the 16th century was the era of great maritime discoveries in human history. The Mediterranean Sea was the center of world civilization at that time, and Italy, as the origin of the Renaissance, had rich cultural resources and cultural foundation.

At that time, the Italian city of Venice was the center of Mediterranean trade, and it was in frequent contact with the ports along the Mediterranean coast and the commercial cities of Germany, and became a city that concentrated news from all over the world.

In this city, there was an organizer called Manant, who collected news about the courts, the city, and trade information, and published this hand-copied newspaper of the Gazette for the princes, nobles, and merchants, which was very popular at the time, and it was the VeniceGazette.

Later, Venice Gazette switched to hand-copying and printing, increasing its circulation, and was later called the Venice Gazette.

Gazette originally meant a Venetian coin, and a Gazette bought a tabloid, so people called the Venetian tabloid Venice Gazette, so much so that the word later became synonymous with "newspaper" in Western Europe.

This is the earliest newspaper in human history with the three major properties of modern printing.

At the same time, because Venice was one of the most famous seaports in the world at that time, and there were many tourists passing through here, the Venice Gazette was spread over a larger area in Europe, Asia and Africa, and influenced the development of the local newspaper industry with these merchants, sailors, tourists, and clergy.

In a sense: Venice Gazette is the progenitor of the modern newspaper.

Since the German Gutenberg used molten mixed metal to cast lead characters, he later invented fatty printing inks and printing presses, and realized the mechanization of printing.

The development of newspapers also ushered in the spring. The newspaper developed from Italy, along the west coast of Europe to the north, North Africa, Liberia, England and France, Holy Rome, Viking, and in a short period of time, the newspaper became popular in Europe.

And in the hundreds of years that followed, the warships that accompanied the colonists cruised the world.

China's Di Bao is the oldest newspaper in the world, but China's newspaper in the modern sense of the word is a foreign product.

If it weren't for the arrival of President Wei, in the media, due to the feudal system, Huaxia would have lagged behind a lot.

After the Second Opium War, many Western institutions set up newspapers in China for the purpose of facilitating proselytizing. But most of the newspapers at that time were religious in nature. It's not very newsy.

It was not until the end of the 19th century that the number of state-run and privately-run newspapers in China gradually increased.

In 1895, that is, the twenty-first year of Guangxu, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, the famous reformers of the Restoration, founded the Qiang Society in Beijing and published the newspaper "Sino-Foreign Chronicles" (also known as "Wanguo Gazette"), which was the most influential newspaper run by the early Chinese.

At that time, there were already dozens of newspapers of various types in Beijing alone, with a daily print run of more than 1,000.

After 1900, with the successive establishment of newspapers, six major newspaper rooms appeared in Beijing, and the trade names were: Juxing, Juheng, Synthesis, Xinyi, and Jiwen. These newspapers control the distribution rights of various newspapers in the capital, and this is the earliest batch of newspapers in China.

Each newspaper office hired a newspaper man, all wearing blue cloth robes, with a blue cloth long bag on his shoulder, containing a daily newspaper, walking like flying, and distributing it to all yamen, officials' offices, big merchants, money banks and other subscribers.

In 1911, various newspapers in Beijing jointly opened a newspaper distribution office in Yongxing Temple, Nanliu Lane, Liulichang, which was responsible for the sales and distribution of various newspapers, which should be the earliest non-governmental newspaper distribution and logistics organization in China.

Due to the establishment of the joint newspaper and periodical distribution office, during the Beiyang period, Beijing's newspaper center was also concentrated in the vicinity of Nancheng Caishikou along with the distribution office, and more than 100 kinds of newspapers such as "Republic of China Daily", "Jue Bao", "Morning Bell Daily" and "China Gazette" gathered, forming a large-scale industry to a certain extent.

The 10s and 20s of the 20 th century were the heyday of China's newspaper industry, and there were more than 100 newspapers in Beijing alone, with more than 300 kinds of newspapers issued.

It was also at this time that we were in the period of China's New Culture Movement, and the idea of democracy and the spirit of humanity were deeply understood and gradually penetrated into the hearts of the people through newspapers large and small.

Before the summer, President Wei's world society established various ministerial-level institutions, education, and propaganda, which were the first ministerial-level institutions to be established, and President Wei has always attached great importance to education and propaganda in these aspects that control the minds of the people.

"I think the Overseer has figured out what a newspaper is by now! He is a dignified scholar, a literate man, and he can't read a newspaper, which is strange. Wei Bao laughed.

"Hehe, he really can't understand it, yesterday the Inspector was holding a copy of the Qingtaiyu Evening News and asked me what the words were, have you forgotten? The words of Weijiazhuang have been simplified by you, and I have to check the dictionary to know many words, I don't know what you think? Good words, what are you doing with missing arms and legs? However, it can make it easier for illiterate people to recognize a few more words, which can save a lot of time. Wu Xuexia said with a smile: "Inspector Sun praised our newspaper, saying that he didn't expect that a poor and remote place like southern Liaoning was actually the most learned place in the entire Ming Dynasty, because he saw that many ordinary people, even the elderly and children could understand the newspaper." ”

Wei Bao smiled and hummed, "Okay, you go and get busy with you." ”

Wu Xuexia nodded and agreed.

At noon, Wei Bao had dinner with Sun Chengzong as usual, and Wei Bao told Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan the news that Nurhachi had arrived at Lianshan Pass with an army of 8,000.

The two of them were amazed! Like Wu Xuexia's previous conjecture, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan also thought that Nurhachi would immediately attack Wei Bao.

"Maybe, but let's just get ready for war, and if we don't fight, we just let him be an old slave!" Wei Bao said confidently: "As long as he doesn't take the initiative to attack Lianshan Pass, it won't be easy for him to take the initiative to attack our big camp!" If we don't break through our big camp outside Lianshan Pass, Jiannu wants to go to southern Liaoning to burn, kill and plunder, and it is even more impossible! ”

"Not bad! Don't be too afraid of Nurhachi! Sun Chengzong smiled: "Xiaobao, okay, I can't sit still if I beat the old slave!" After dinner, didn't you still let me participate in a meeting? ”

"It's not called a discussion, it's a press conference, and an official gazette will be held a year ago, and reporters from various newspapers will be arranged to interview me and my mentor." Wei Bao corrected with a smile.

Sun Chengzong really didn't understand what the newspaper meant, and he didn't know how to interview, but he didn't know how to pretend to understand, "Okay." ”

Wei Bao smiled slightly.

Yuan Chonghuan secretly looked at the two, and now Yuan Chonghuan's jealousy of Wei Bao has quietly reached its peak, not only because Sun Chengzong really regards Wei Bao as his own son and nephew, but also because Wei Bao's rule is really very stable in Yuan Chonghuan's opinion.

For example, if the old slave Nurhachi arrived at Lianshan Pass, if it was placed in the Liaodong Border Army, if Nurhachi arrived outside Jinzhou City, hundreds of thousands of Jiliao soldiers and horses and the Liaodong Border Army would definitely be shocked and restless, but Wei Bao's side, whether it was Wei Bao himself, or the army and the people under Wei Bao, it was as if there was nothing, and it was surprising to put it mildly.

It seems that Nurhachi's arrival is only a trivial matter.

Although they still don't understand what Wei Bao's newspaper means and what it does, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan haven't read the newspaper less in the past two days, and when they encounter a lot of simplified words on Wei Bao's side, they don't have much reading pressure, so they can guess.

What shocked Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan the most was that Wei Bao's side, no matter what newspaper it was, reported it truthfully, and there was absolutely no falsehood, whether it was the number of Jiannu killed or the number of casualties on his side, it was very real and specific, and he did not hide it.

If this is placed in Daming, it is almost unimaginable, Daming has 100 deaths, and 1 person will be reported dead. If Daming kills 1 enemy, it will be reported as killing 100 enemies.

A hundredfold 'embellishment', that's a common phenomenon.

There are not only written reports, but also drawings, which are very specific and vivid to report the news of various places, war news, and folk news in pictures and texts.

True, specific, and covering all aspects, these are Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan's impressions of the newspapers in Weibao's jurisdiction.

In the afternoon, more than 200 reporters from more than 50 newspapers crowded the front hall of the president's official residence, which was located in the middle of Qingtaiyu.

"Everyone, be quiet, and now with everyone's applause, please invite the president and Jiliao Governor Sun." The emcee of the press conference said.

While the audience was silent, the newspaper reporters applauded, obviously, this kind of press conference has been held several times, and everyone is familiar with the process.

Sun Chengzong followed Wei Bao out, facing so many people, and this kind of applause scene, Lord Sun Chengzong, who had seen a lot of the world, was also a little stunned.

Wei Bao was very indifferent, and after standing still, he smiled at Sun Chengzong, and then said to the reporters below: "Big guy, you can start." ”

Wei Bao means it's time to start asking questions.

There is a sequence of questions from reporters, and the order and content of the questions have been submitted before, and not everyone can get their turn, and some repetitive questions will not be in their turn.

"Hello president, I am Wei Xiaoguang, a reporter from Liaoyang Evening News, some time ago we were at war with Jiannu, according to the figures disclosed by Tiandi Daily, our death reached 500,000, of which more than 400,000 were killed by Jiannu in Jinzhou because they were not transferred in time, and Jiannu only died less than 20,000. May I ask the president, what do you think about such a gap? Is the president satisfied or disappointed? A reporter from the Liaoyang Evening News took the lead in asking questions.

"Not satisfied, not disappointed, look at it with a normal heart! Dissatisfaction is due to the fact that the previous work has not been done enough, and the local administration has not communicated well with the people. The reason why we are not disappointed is because our guards are all improvised, and we have made moves with the Jiannu army, who have been through a hundred battles, and it can even be said that they have repeatedly taken advantage of the Ming official army, and we are not stunned! We played well! They are all heroes, we are alive, there is no reason to be disappointed, as long as all the people can unite as one, this gap will be smaller and smaller in the future, and we will fight better and better! Wei Bao replied succinctly. The answer was very smooth and calm.

Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan admired Wei Bao's answer very much, because Wei Bao was talking eloquently, not reading any text prepared in advance, which was not easy.

And they felt that Wei Bao's answer was also very decent, not only had something to say, but also did not have excessive pessimism and preaching, giving people a kind of strength in the plain, giving people a sense of calmness, this is a kind of commanding demeanor, which is only 14 years old, with this kind of commanding demeanor, if you don't see it with your own eyes, it is really unimaginable.

"Hello president, I'm Zhao Yalan, a reporter from Tiandi Daily, may I ask the president, now Lianshanguan is still in the hands of Jiannu, according to our previous plan, if we want to drive all Jiannu out of southern Liaoning this winter, then we have to take Lianshanguan, does the president think it can be done? When will it be completed? A female reporter raised her hand and asked.

"Yes! Absolutely! Wei Bao replied cleanly: "Jiannu has won many battles against the Ming army, and he is arrogant!" All the territories of Daming are like coming and going like the wind, without hindrance! This has been going on for twenty years, and I started it before I was born! But today, we Liao people have done it, and we have dealt a strong blow to Jiannu in southern Liaoning, and even taken away Jiannu's territory and cities in southern Liaoning! The turtle they beat was shrunk in Lianshan Pass, and they didn't dare to come out again! No one will ever think that Jiannu can't be stopped, Jiannu's bow and arrow are invincible! We have completely broken the rumor that Jiannu will win every battle and win in the wilderness! This is the great victory and the brilliant result that we have achieved! As long as we unite and have firm beliefs, we will definitely be able to win the Lianshan Pass! When it will be done, it depends on the state of preparation and the efforts of all the people! This is confidential and inconvenient to say. ”

Although President Wei did not specify the time for the capture of Lianshan Pass, the reporters present were still deeply encouraged and applauded at the same time.

Later, a reporter asked Sun Chengzong what he thought, and the old man couldn't say anything, so he was a little embarrassed, so he said to Wei Bao and went down in advance.

When the press conference ended, Sun Chengzong couldn't stop complaining, "Xiaobao! This is the interview with the people who wrote in the newspaper? I didn't know what to do, I wasn't prepared at all, what a shame today? You really are. ”

Wei Bao smiled: "What kind of preparation do you need for this?" The teacher is not ashamed at all today, you are my teacher, how can you be ashamed? Your graceful and luxurious, handsome and free appearance and temperament, where do you look like a person in his sixties? Look at many female reporters staring at their mentors with wide eyes. ”

Sun Chengzong patted Wei Bao's arm angrily and funny, a little unbearable Wei Bao teased him, "It's not big or small, you talk to your teacher like this?" ”

Yuan Chonghuan said with a smile: "This kind of press conference is really useful, I now know what Xiaobao's newspaper is for, our imperial court's newspaper is to let officials know some major events, but these major events are whitewashed and peaceful, and they are not of much use." And Xiaobao's newspaper is to let all the people know about things everywhere, and it is a real thing, not a deceptive thing, which can make all the people's hearts twist into a rope, which is really useful! Xiaobao, I admire you, just because you can come up with such an idea as a newspaper, I admire you. ”

"I didn't come up with it, there are a lot of newspapers in Europe now." Wei Bao smiled: "We can't just stare at Jiannu, we have to look at the world!" Look beyond the Ming Dynasty! It's like there are natural disasters in the Ming Dynasty, and natural disasters are continuous, but many places in the world are smooth, if we have a strong maritime trade, how can we be short of food? ”

"That's right! Didn't you Xiaobao get a lot of grain from North Korea, so that you can be as bullish as you are now? Sun Chengzong also made fun of Wei Bao at the right time, paused and asked, "By the way, Xiaobao, I forgot to ask you how North Korea is now?" ”

Wei Bao replied: "One or two sentences are not clear, this is a long story." I can't answer for sure right now. ”

"What's going on?" Sun Chengzong didn't understand too much.

Wei Bao then said that he had supported a little power in North Korea and left a little men and horses to divide Hwanghae Province and Gyeonggi Province, "The two sides should be in a long-term confrontation, nothing major, that's all." ”

"You kid, use my name to handle North Korean affairs, if the North Koreans sue the Ming Dynasty, it will be very difficult to explain." Sun Chengzong said.

Wei Bao smiled: "Sue to the Ming Dynasty, and don't even affect the teacher, it's all my personal doing, besides, I don't have anything to do, that Li Liang ousted his uncle Guanghaijun Li Hui from power, it was originally unjustifiable, and he was arrogant and rude to me, and he was arrogant and rude to me, that is, he was disrespectful to his teacher, and I must teach him a lesson." ”

Wei Bao's trick reverses black and white, fanning the flames, and stirring up right and wrong.

Sun Chengzong was very fond of this, "Yes, the Koreans are far away from Daming, and now they are separated by a Jiannu, Mao Wenlong is next to them, they may still buy it, I, the Jiliao Governor, have never been to North Korea, and the Koreans have not come to visit me, I have no deterrent power for them, and it is good to teach them a lesson." Xiaobao, tell me honestly, what exactly do you want from the North Koreans? If you knock out the grain, you have to knock the silver? ”

Wei Bao didn't seem to be unhappy when he saw Sun Chengzong at first, and he was a little relieved, but when he heard Sun Chengzong say this, he couldn't help sweating, what does it mean to knock on food and silver? It's the same as a bandit.

Wei Bao didn't answer, but Yuan Chonghuan smiled and said, "I'm afraid Xiaobao wants to get a large piece of land in North Korea, right?" ”

Wei Bao raised his eyebrows, and his face flushed with the blush of being told that his mind had been broken.

Sun Chengzong immediately looked at Wei Bao, and Wu Xuexia, Wang Qiuya and others also looked at Wei Bao, not knowing how Wei Bao would answer.