The minister is willing to return to the Eastern Domain and preside over the marching division there......" Li Yi said: "The Eastern Domain can have another 200,000 to 300,000 immigrants in the past two years, according to our estimates, it can reach 500,000 within three years, more than 100,000 in the middle, 400,000 in the south, and tens of thousands of people in the north can also be accommodated to reclaim farmland and set up farms." In addition, sugar cane, tea fields, cotton fields, various factories and mines, and seaside salt pans, the important place is not under the Fujian Road, and if the minister is not in charge of the Eastern Domain, it is difficult to rest assured......"

"Li Gong is still waiting to pick up the Fujian Marching Division......" Fang Shaoqun replied on behalf of Xu Zixian: "The Eastern Domain, Fujian, should be the place where the Great King Longxing is, and the Eastern Domain is the best to entrust to Fu Muzhi, he is the political officer and master of the Marching Division, and there must be weapons, crossbows, armor, and artillery under the Ordnance Bureau, and at the same time, it is necessary to take into account the casting and production of civilian equipment, and manage a number of workshops, and it is really impossible to ...... him."

Li Yi understood the meaning of Fang Shaoqun's words, the industrial and commercial trade of the Eastern Domain, including salt, sugar, and tea, was quite developed, but the construction base of various workshop equipment, including the shipyard, was also in the southern part of the Eastern Domain.

"That's right." Fang Shaoqun finally said: "There is also the Department of Education, and it is most suitable for Mr. Wu to be the director." ”

Wu Shizhong's status is quite high, and even Fang Shaoqun, who doesn't look down on pure Confucianism, is also known as Mr.

"Is Mr. Wu willing?"

"Running a school, teaching students according to their aptitude, and teaching without class." Fang Shaoqun smiled: "How could Mr. Wu be unwilling? ”

"Well, everything is safe." Li Yi leaned back in the chair quite relaxed, his eyes cast out of the window, the outer courtyard was empty, but the officials and soldiers were endless, only under the big tree in the west, the old pavilion with straw was still the same, through the strong light full of dust, Li Yi seemed to be able to see Xu Yingbin sitting in the pavilion with a frank stomach, Xu Zi first stood aside with his hair combed, and he was playing against Lao Nan Anhou.

"It's not stable yet." Xu Zixian has been reading the official documents, and many major events in front of him are being discussed by Chen Zuocai and Fang Shaoqun, and he has also communicated with the generals in the army, and he has also discussed with Li Yi in letters before, and this whole set of arrangements is based on the actual situation in front of him. In the next year or two, Xu Zi should first be recruited as the prince of Kaifu, first let Li Kaiming go for a few months to half a year, and then enter Jiangxi to crusade after he regrouped, and then enter Jingnan, it is estimated that this whole process will take one or two years.

Xu Zixian must not have been able to stay in Fuzhou for a long time, let alone the Eastern Domain, so the reform of the entire shogunate system was adapted to local conditions and was in line with the actual situation in the future.

The only thing Xu Zixian hesitated about was where to put his wife's room, which was more suitable for Fuzhou, but the Eastern Domain had just been created and was a promising place, and putting his wife and children on the island was extremely useful in encouraging immigrants and stabilizing the morale of the army and civilians.

A year or two later, after Xu Zi returned to Fuzhou first, and then took his wife and children to Fuzhou, the situation of the Eastern Domain was also stabilized, and it entered a period of slow development, and the time might be more appropriate at that time.

It's just that this kind of consideration is not suitable to talk to the pregnant wife first, Xu Zixian wanted to write a letter a few times, but when the pen touched the paper, he didn't know how to phrase it.

The husband was born in the world, and it is really difficult to do so, not only to show his ambitions, but also to take care of his wife and children, which is really a dilemma.

"What's next?" Fang Shaoqun turned his head to Xu Zixian and said, "Do you want to wait a little longer, or do you want to take care of the things below?" ”

"Let's take care of it, it's an end." Xu Zixian smiled coldly and said, "I'll write a warrant and ask Jin Jian to deal with it." ”

The nobles in Fuzhou City can't be punished, but they don't take into account their feelings, with Xu Zixian's current strength, what if the nobles in the city are all against them? Under the general trend, what you want to resist is the mantis arm as a car, which will be crushed by the Qin Wangfu army.

It's just that King Zhao was defeated and killed a large number of Fujian children, which originally made the people have a considerable degree of dissatisfaction with the clan, but fortunately, Xu Zixian was able to protect the territory and the people, and the clan had a fig leaf.

If it is revealed that the clan nobles have colluded with the thieves, this is not a matter of ability, but a serious problem of integrity, and if the people find that these people can neither protect themselves nor be respected in ethics, the image of the clan nobles will drop significantly, even including Xu Zixian himself.

Although from the feeling in his heart, Xu Zi first wanted to push the Chen family brothers and others to the Min River to behead them, or give them a decent way to die, erect a few booms, hang them on the poles and hang them alive, watching their bodies float around in mid-air...... Xu Ziwei, the Chen brothers and others deserve such punishment.

It's a pity, Xu Zixian didn't think about the old emotions without any thoughts.

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The killing by the Min River lasted for more than an hour, and in the end, the people nearby were tired of watching, and many people could not accept such a killing scene and left early.

leftovers

The people under it are also quite sluggish, the people like to watch executions, there are not many ways to entertain these years, for many poor people to watch a head kill is enough to brag for a long time.

The student and merchant classes, let alone the officials and gentry, rarely saw this kind of bustle.

This time, there were many officials and gentry gathered on the side of the Minjiang River, and after the execution, they watched as the shirtless soldiers of the government army waved shovels to shovel the soil and bury a large number of headless corpses into deep pits.

Zheng Mingyuan and Wei Yi were originally in one place, but later met Chen Zhengzhi and others, and then came down and met Chen Duzhu and Xu Yanda, Wei Jiuzhen, and a group of big officials and businessmen in Jiangxi and Liangzhejiang Road.

When everyone was walking, they met Xu Xingwei who was riding back to the city, and saw many elders walking towards the place where the carriage was parked, Xu Xingwei paused slightly, and bowed his hand to Xu Yanda, Wei Jiuzhen and others, with an apologetic look on his face, and also waved his hand to Wei Yi...... The two are good brothers, and everything is in plain sight.

"Your family's Qianli Ju has just come into everyone's eyes, and that's what he does." Wei Jiuzhen shook his head at Xu Yanda and said, "I'm afraid it's not good for him in the future." ”

"What's wrong?" Xu Yanda didn't have time to answer, so Chen Duzhu hurriedly said: "Zizhang's future reputation will not only not be bad, but it will also be very good, quite good." ”

"That's what Elder Zhu said." A big businessman in Jingnan said excitedly: "I'm looking forward to Lord Xu coming to our Jingnan, the sooner the better!" ”

"We are not much better in Jiangxi, only a few places such as Hongzhou are peaceful, and there are many bandits in the rest of the places."

"For thieves, except for some who really can't pay taxes, they have to do it in order to eat, most of them are still idle and don't do their jobs, they are originally petty thefts, and even dare to kill people and steal goods. The less peaceful the place, the more ruthless these people are. ”

"They are not robbing the gentry and the big food households, but most of them are the rich merchants and middle-class families in the area, coercing the poor to rob with them. For the sake of looting, no matter how cruel things are, they will do it. Tie up other people's children, send money a little later will tear up the ticket, the younger brother has seen this kind of thing many times in his hometown, most of the kidnapped children are a few years old boys, after tearing the ticket, their parents crying is unbearable to witness, that kind of sad and vicious, how can you know what happened if you didn't see it with your own eyes? As for looting and killing, it is common to kill entire villages and burn down villages. I Jingnan people are fierce, the mountain people work in the field during the day, look industrious and simple, at night is to put the hoe, on both sides of the road to rob the passing merchants, and rarely let people live, most of them are killed in the mountains to choose a deep pit and throw it, or dig a pit to bury. How many passers-by on Guangdong South Road have lost their lives with us, and they can't be detected at all. The local criminal department and the local state and county officials either can't do anything about it, or they simply join forces with the thieves and divide each other. There are as many as 1,000 or even thousands of big bandits, and there are dozens of people in the small share, and there are as many thieves as cattle hairs. Therefore, His Royal Highness the King of Qin said that the rule of chaos should be restricted, if the tax reduction is the first, and then the thieves are killed, this is the most serious way, this time the gentry and the good people can take a breath, not only can they eat enough, but they don't have to worry about being tied up children, or killing people, and the local benefits and people's hearts can all belong to His Royal Highness at once. ”

When this Jingnan businessman recounted, sometimes sad and angry, sometimes depressed, that kind of sad and angry expression did not have the slightest falsification, and the things described in Jingnan were terrifying, and I really don't know how these big businessmen survived in such places.

When everyone was shocked and suspicious, Chen Duzhu nodded, and said in a rather affirmative tone: "What he said is true, the old man has been to Jingnan many times, and the past two years have not been too rushed. ”

Chen Duzhu's identity from a family will be taken care of by people everywhere in the government, and the gentry and giant businessmen with such a background actually dare not go over, and everyone believes that what the Jingnan people said should be the truth.

Wei Yi and Zheng Mingyuan walked together, and Zheng Mingyuan sighed at this time: "Before, I felt that His Royal Highness King Qin had killed thousands of people at once, and the methods were too cool, but now listening to the situation described by merchants from all walks of life, one is glad that my Fujian Road has not reached such a situation, and the other is that His Royal Highness has handled it very right." ”

"I invite Brother Zheng to come today, just to use the power of newspapers." Wei Yi is actually a busy man, he was ready to return to Penghu, but he was called back by Xu Zixian halfway, the reason is also simple, he wants to communicate with the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in front of him and reveal Xu Zixian's meaning.

"I get it." Zheng Mingyuan said with a straight face: "Before, I also thought that His Royal Highness King Qin's methods were too urgent and cruel, but now I have understood, if I don't have such a heavy punishment, once the place erodes and becomes Jingnan, it is not impossible to have such a situation in Jingbei." Moreover, although the killing was heavy, it was a canonical punishment, and no one had anything strange to say. ”

"Next

The Qin Palace's Mansion will also run a newspaper, and will also encourage many nobles and gentry families such as the Marquis of Changwen to jointly run a newspaper. Wei Yi said: "However, the weekly newspaper is an old newspaper, and King Qin will cancel many restrictions on review and circulation, as long as it is not deliberately fake, and it is illegal to fabricate rumors, there is nothing to say in the newspaper." This time, I communicated with Brother Zheng, not to ask Brother Zheng to report on His Highness's actions and explain for His Highness, but to ask Brother Zheng to post his previous doubts first, and to question and oppose His Highness's actions. ”

"Huh?" Zheng Mingyuan's mouth was open, and he didn't understand Wei Yi's intentions for a while.

Wei Yihan said with a smile: "I was recalled by King Qin halfway to Penghu, not to ask the newspaper to explain to His Highness...... The shogunate will have Tang newspapers, all newspapers can be reprinted, His Royal Highness means, since it is said that public opinion should be emphasized, so that everyone can speak out, and if there is any questioning, you can't pick the identity, today everyone dare not question the King of Qin, and tomorrow there will be another King of Wei, King Jin, everyone still doesn't dare to find faults, so the so-called heavy public opinion, where is the weight, what is the significance? Therefore, Brother Zheng's weekly report must be long and report on the current events, and Brother Zheng personally writes articles to criticize the things in front of him......"

Zheng Mingyuan smiled bitterly: "Then do you want my weekly report, I am only the editor-in-chief, and there are several major shareholders above, and I want to make money by running a newspaper." ”

"Your Highness attaches great importance to the law, and there will never be people in the shogunate who dare to find fault and find trouble, please rest assured at this level. As for the shareholders, it's up to your brother to go through it. If you want to make money, if the guy does such a thing, the image of the weekly newspaper will be raised by a piece, which is not a practical benefit? ”

Wei Yi also ran a newspaper, and Zheng Mingyuan couldn't do it if he wanted to fool him.

In the past, the Great Wei had strict control over newspapers, or in other words, they were not well protected, and if the newspapers offended any dignitaries, from shareholders to editors-in-chief, ordinary editors in charge could be retaliated against.

Under the threat of many threats, the newspaper of course also published some lace news and gossip to attract attention, the genuine copy of the imperial court, and then the literary section is also more important, after all, most of the people who buy newspapers are the reading and intellectual class with leisure and surplus wealth, even if ordinary people can read and understand the text, they will definitely not buy five yuan to buy a newspaper to see, five dollars is enough to buy two or three baked cakes, how can the poor people, how can they waste money on such purposes.

Since Xu Zixian's opening, he has repeatedly ordered that no clan dignitaries and officials should be guilty of words, and repeatedly emphasized that the newspaper's public opinion supervises the government, and after the news spread, many newspaper people, including Zheng Mingyuan, felt excited.

If a newspaper dares to attack the King of Qin, it will definitely attract a lot of attention, and various newspapers will be republished one after another, and it is not impossible to get Luoyang paper expensive.

It's just that to do this, one is to take a big risk, Xu Zixian is the king of Qin after all, he holds a lot of power, and he just ordered the beheading of more than a thousand people outside the city, this kind of power and murderous aura is awe-inspiring, Zheng Mingyuan will feel a little nervous in his heart.

The second is that Zheng Mingyuan is also grateful to Xu Zixian and is reluctant to criticize in the newspaper.

"I've been in the industry for 20 years...... Zheng Mingyuan said with a wry smile: "I've never heard of such a strange thing." ”

Zheng Mingyuan looked at Wei Yi and suddenly said, "Wouldn't it be Yanke that you are bluffing me and teasing me?" ”

"I'm running back and forth for dozens of miles, just to joke with Brother Zheng?" Wei Yi spread his hands, and said helplessly: "This is really Mingda's entrustment, and he has repeatedly told him to implement it as soon as possible." ”

"Your Highness's mind is really admirable...... Zheng Mingyuan was really emotional, and the current thing was really a strange news that he had never heard of.

"You don't have to." Wei Yi said: "To be honest, Mingda does this, it also has its own intentions, one is to really let go of the newspaper's public opinion, and supervision must also be there, you can't let the newspaper take money and talk nonsense, attack officials at will, and criticize and distort policies, but this matter will start from the legal system, not people's temporary likes and dislikes, otherwise today's King Qin has the right, yesterday the King of Zhao has the right, public opinion is controlled and swayed, what kind of supervision?" The second is the march method to kill, although it is legally indisputable, and it is also a move to save the world, but when it spreads, after all, it will affect the image of Mingda, and the newspaper will attack, people will instead vent their grievances and dissatisfaction, and the king of Qin is helpless to the newspaper and your editor-in-chief Zheng, and does not deal with it, in this way, the newspaper supervision of this thing can really be implemented. ”

Zheng Mingyuan had nothing to say, and said at the moment: "There is only one thing, please ask the shogunate to send some soldiers and horses to protect the newspaper and myself, otherwise I will know that the army of the Qin Wangfu can also read and read the newspaper, and no one of the military men will be angry after reading the article, and run over to beat my brother, and even secretly give us an arrow, that is really a great injustice!" ”

Zheng Mingyuan is not joking, this situation is not only possible, but very possible!

Wei Yi couldn't help laughing, clenched his fists and said, "Brother Zheng, don't worry, I'll tell Your Highness when I turn around, and transfer a small team of soldiers and horses to protect Brother Zheng." ”

"That's the best, and it's the best of the best."