Chang'an City.

In the past few days, the first new thing in Chang'an City is the issuance of "Datang Daily", due to traffic problems, the area of "Datang Daily" is temporarily limited to Chang'an City and Chang'an and Wannian counties.

"Datang Daily" is extremely attractive to Chang'an people who lack entertainment projects. The first issue issued 5,000 copies, priced at 5 cents, was quickly sold out, and the second and third phases, with 7,000 and 10,000 copies, respectively, were quickly sold out.

Before the release of "Datang Daily", Li Shimin's tone was that the imperial court paid for control, regardless of the cost, that is, if he lost money, he would make money, and only valued the role of the newspaper in guiding public opinion.

Li You doesn't think so, and he asks Datang Daily to make a profit, which is the normal track for the sustainable development of a new industry.

Chang'an urban area plus two counties, with a population of 1.09 million, according to Li You's prediction in advance, the maximum issuance of 30,000 copies will be saturated, and then, due to the freshness of the people, the sales will gradually decline, at most around 20,000 copies per day.

When the circulation of Datang Daily reached 7,800 copies, it was able to recoup its costs and was now already profitable.

Li Chengqian was very happy and instructed to further increase the amount of printing, and the sales of the newspaper rose steadily, reaching 30,000 copies a few days later, and then to 50,000 copies, which were still sold out.

Li Chengqian felt very strange and did not understand why such a situation had occurred, so he sent people to investigate, only to find that many people were buying the "Datang Daily" and they were selling the "Datang Daily" to other places.

These days, the situation in Chang'an City is very tense, the forces represented by the six clan lords are ready to move, the people within the court and the people have also begun to fluctuate, and even more, many people in the army have questioned the court's suppression of the Qinghe Cui clan. Li Shimin and others were under a lot of pressure.

Li Chengqian was very excited, and took the financial statements to report to Li Shimin, he really wanted to make Li Shimin happy to relieve his nervousness.

Liangyi Palace, study.

As soon as Li Chengqian entered the door, he saw that everyone was smiling on their faces, and there was a relaxed atmosphere in the study. Seeing Li Chengqian, Li Shimin smiled and said: "Prince, you came just in time, I have an editorial here, you can take it to publish it in Datang Daily." ”

Li Chengqian was overjoyed and asked, "Father, could it be that there is news from the fifth brother?" ”

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the King of Qi, Wei Zheng, Hou Junji and others have sent good news, and the Qinghe Cui clan has been taken down. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji sighed with emotion: "Yes, I really can't imagine that from the first year of Zhenguan to the present, in more than ten years, the Qinghe Cui clan has done as many as 4,243 things that violated the imperial court decrees in Beizhou, including as many as 346 major crimes, and as many as 591 officials and civilians were persecuted to death by them. ”

Wei Chigong said: "They took the initiative to hand over more than 3,700 weapons, and the weapons found were as many as 32,790 pieces, many of which were standard weapons. Moreover, they actually have three secret weapons workshops, which is simply terrifying. ”

Li Shimin said angrily: "In my Datang land, there is still such an evil force, don't you eradicate it?" ”

Li Chengqian knew that the Qinghe Cui clan was powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so terrifying. He said: "Father, completely exposing the ugly face of the Qinghe Cui clan is just playing the role of a newspaper. After speaking, he reported to Li Shimin and others on the distribution of the newspaper.

The publication of the newspaper had such a great influence, and Li Shimin and others were very happy. Li Shimin decided that the eldest grandson Wuji would take the lead in organizing a huge writing group to publicize the crimes of the Qinghe Cui clan in the newspapers, and Li Chengqian would increase the number of newspapers in circulation, and in addition to the Chang'an area, he would also send messengers to various places.

Then they discussed their opinions on the treatment of Qinghe Choi's family.

Li You, Wei Zheng, Hou Junji, and Wang Huairen suggested that all the children of the Qinghe Cui clan involved in the case be investigated and dealt with according to the crimes they committed. If there is no involvement, those who are found to be innocent can continue to serve as officials below the seventh grade, and as for the relationship between in-laws, as long as they are not involved in criminal cases, they will not be implicated by the Qinghe Cui family. The protégé and the deceased officials were also dealt with in this way.

This suggestion is different from the previous practice of the imperial court in handling criminal cases, in which the family members, in-laws, and protégés of the criminal parties were all dealt with in the past, and the most serious cases were even punished by the nine clans.

The foundation of the Qinghe Cui clan for thousands of years, if it is disposed of according to this method, how many tens of thousands of people will be involved? If it is dealt with in the previous way, it will cause great social unrest.

Moreover, if this is done, when dealing with other gate valve clans in the future, they will have no way to live, and they will definitely resist desperately, and may even join forces to resist, this huge force can shake the foundation of the imperial court, and even subvert the imperial court.

If they don't engage in the alliance, they will leave a fluke mentality for most people, and they will not participate in the confrontation against the imperial court in order to protect themselves, which can play a huge role in disintegrating the power of the gate lord clan.

After research, Li Shimin and others decided to adopt the suggestions of Li You and others to crack down on the first evil of the Qinghe Cui clan and open up the net to coercion.

After this blow, even if the Qinghe Cui clan retains a group of people, as a huge family for thousands of years, it no longer exists. The society is very realistic, after this blow, Cui's political and economic status plummeted, there was no longer a sense of superiority, and his influence was greatly reduced.

What happened to the Qinghe Cui clan was a warning to the other gate lord clans, and this incident told them that no matter how powerful the family was, it was vulnerable in front of the imperial court. Since then, the behavior of the gate valve clan has been much more restrained.

The influence of the newspaper was huge, and when the "Datang Daily" continuously published the crimes of the Qinghe Cui clan and the opinions of the imperial court, most of the people who were instigated by the gate lord clan to prepare for trouble woke up and no longer participated in the actions against the imperial court. The other big families who were ready to assist the Qinghe Cui clan also retreated when they saw this situation, and a storm quietly disappeared into nothingness.

The Qinghe Cui clan bribed Wang Hequn, an official of the Hundred Cavalry Division, murdered the people involved in the engraving of paper money, and blamed Li Shimin, which was also found out and published in the newspaper, recovering the adverse impact on the imperial court.

Since the Qinghe Cui clan began to collapse, the next thing had nothing to do with Li You, and he embarked on the journey back to Chang'an with Xiao Qian and Cheng Yanjin.

Just as they were about to return to Chang'an, they met a messenger sent by Yu Chi Baoqi.