Blue sky!

For thousands of years, in China, it has always represented the beautiful yearning of the people, and the people regard the officials who are the masters of the people as Qingtian, and call it together with Lang Lang Qiankun. But the cruelty of reality lies in the fact that in thousands of years of history, there are very few officials who can be called "blue sky".

In reality, the so-called "blue sky" is often quite ironic - almost every local official will be called "blue sky" by the people who govern the place, and the so-called "blue sky" is just a play on the stage, and the "umbrella of the people" when he left office, but just a tool to buy good officials.

The so-called "blue sky" is often just the wishful imagination of the people, and even a kind of irony, even if it is a corrupt official, it may be a "blue sky", and there can be an "umbrella for all people".

However, all this seems to be changing in the Xingqian Dynasty, and this is not because the Xingqian Dynasty saw the Dali Yuan in charge of the trial of criminal and prison cases, the prosecution of criminal cases, and the supervision of local yamen, which broke the monopoly of the county and prefect over the power of criminal and prison trials in the past, and greatly reduced the probability of unjust imprisonment.

It is because in addition to these "two mouths" of the official yamen, there is also a "blue sky", but this "blue sky" is not sent by the emperor, but the public opinion condensed by public opinion, although in the old days there was also public opinion in Shilin, and again and again made the government disgraced and "unbearable", but now the public opinion gathered by public opinion is just a few thin newspapers, and this newspaper worth only a few cents often enters thousands of households.

In fact, newspapers are not a rare thing for the Ming Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a "Di Bao" that was only used in the government, and in the Song Dynasty, there was a "tabloid" that was only used in the people. It is an unofficial newspaper that mainly publishes news and current political materials, without a fixed masthead and name. "Tabloid newspaper" was a customary term at the time. It began in the Northern Song Dynasty and prevailed in the Southern Song Dynasty. The tabloids mainly reported on the dynamics of the imperial court, the emperor's edicts, etc. Unlike official newspapers, tabloids are fast and time-sensitive, and in order to cater to readers, most of the confidential events of the imperial court published by the central departments are not public, and they are banned for violating the ban on the court. Even so, the tabloids were still popular with Shilin and the bureaucrats in the opposition.

However, because the influence of the "tabloids" was too great, which seriously affected the effect of the "tabloids", especially the fact that they would report some fake news and even rumors from time to time, the Song Dynasty also completely banned the publication of "tabloids", stipulating that those who read "tabloids" in private would be exiled for 500 li, and those who reported others reading "tabloids" would be rewarded with 200 yuan. However, since "tabloids" are indeed very popular with the public, and even many government civil servants take pleasure in reading them, "tabloids" still sell well despite the explicit ban.

In Daming, there was also a thriving newspaper office, which changed from illegal to legal. Although it was forbidden for the Minbao to copy and spread the border affairs during the Chongzhen period, the Minbao was still distributed in the north and south of the river, and its business was also quite prosperous, all of which were completely destroyed with the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing even forbade the people to spread the tabloids privately by torture.

However, even in the Ming Dynasty, which taxed the maternity newspapers, the government's attitude was to resist the newspapers that copied the newspapers of the official mansions. As early as the time when the Xingqian Emperor was in his residence in Jiangbei, in order to spread the idea of resisting the Qing Dynasty and attack the Manchus in public opinion, he not only directly funded the establishment of the "Ming Pao" for distribution to the general public, but also subsequently funded the establishment of a number of newspapers. Even after ascending to the pole, he still supported the establishment and distribution of newspapers, and also created special laws to regulate the development of newspapers.

As early as the anti-Qing period, scholars used the pen as a weapon to regain the lost "mountains and rivers" in public opinion, and used words to attack to maintain the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty. During the war, the pen in the hands of the scholars was a sharp sword and a spear, and after the end of the large-scale war, the pen in the hands of the scholars also changed.

For thousands of years, for the first time, someone really spoke for the small people, although it was only a voice, but when the newspaper became public opinion, and used words to speak for the people, cry out grievances, and declare justice, and repeatedly let corrupt officials and corrupt officials receive due punishment, this made the people in the world who had been looking forward to the blue sky for a long time see the shadow of "blue sky" in the newspaper, and regarded it as "blue sky", as a pair of eyes of its blue sky.

In February of the fifth year of Xingqian, in Yingtianfuya, a seemingly simple newspaper changed hands quietly - according to the laws of the imperial court, applying for a newspaper was an extremely troublesome matter, and the local government wanted to avoid "trouble", especially after discovering that the newspaper was equivalent to staring at them with a pair of eyes. The attitude towards the newspaper has become more and more ambiguous. Three years after Xingqian, new licenses are often no longer issued, so if you want to run a newspaper, the easiest way is to buy the existing old newspaper house and then change it.

"Hey, I don't think that one day, this "Hong Bao" will change his name!"

The official in charge couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the name "Zhu Chenggong" on the registration certificate.

"Hong Pao" was founded by the national surname Ye back then, in order to win the world's public opinion with "Ming Pao", but who would have thought that in just a few years, this "Hong Pao", which was once distributed in various parts of the Yangtze River, has disappeared. The reason for this is not because of anything else, but because of the official color of "Hong Bao", but with the decline of the Min Wangfu, the scope and circulation of the newspaper became less and less, and finally became a newspaper that did not enter the stream.

Now, Hong Pao has been suspended for half a year – another six months, and the government will simply cancel its issue. And this is also the reason why Qian Sunai and others were able to buy "Hong Bao" at a low price of 1,800 taels. The current Zheng family doesn't have the idea or idea of half a pack at all. For the vast majority of the Zheng family, all they want is to be a rich man, and with the Zheng family's property, they can do it for generations without worrying about food, not to mention that they are still princes of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the current Zheng family is often cautious, lest it cause dissatisfaction with the imperial court and break this idle and wealthy day. That's why they're willing to sell the newspaper.

"A few gentlemen, after this "Hong Pao" changes hands, do you need to change your registration?"

Regarding the official's inquiry, Qian Sunai, who had been prepared for a long time, said directly.

"Well, it's called the Communistry."

On the ninth day of the second month of the fifth year of Xingqian, this day was an ordinary day for the Ming Dynasty, but it was an extremely important day for the Ming Dynasty public opinion circles. It's just that at this time, no one knows the future.

"Sir, in addition to complying with the corresponding laws of the imperial court, it is also necessary to remember that if the circulation of each issue does not exceed 300 copies within two years, the government will require it to be suspended, and the same is true if the circulation of each issue is less than 500 copies in a year......

At this time, the officials who told him did not know that a week later, the inaugural issue of the "Gongyi Bao" had more than 5,000 copies - most of its buyers were Nanjing and Jiangnan Shilin scholars, although the group of "scholars" gradually became a thing of the past with the abolition of the Eight Shares of Shishi, but they still had a great influence among the people.

These routine exhortations from officials are just some of the tricks that the government has learned in the wrestling between the government and the newspaper in the past few years. Since they use the law to protect themselves, then the official uniform has learned to protect itself with rules. By setting some rules, some small newspapers were pushed out of the market. As for the officials of the world, they even want to increase the circulation limit tenfold, and then close all the private newspapers in the world.

Rights have always been a good thing. For those who hold power, they never want to be supervised, let alone be stared at by countless pairs of eyes, even if they are just a pair of very ordinary eyes that don't even have any power.

For them, those eyes are always unsettling. It's just that they don't know it, and now they just feel uncomfortable at best. And after that, they were uncomfortable with those eyes.

As soon as the "Gongyi Bao" was published, it took "not repeating official newspapers" as its purpose and concentrated on reporting local current affairs that the people were concerned about, and publicly discussing the gains and losses of local governments. When there is a controversial sentence or a dispute between the government and the people, the "Gongyi Bao" will send local personnel to report on the incident, and announce the incident to the people, analyzing the causes and consequences of time. If there is a problem with a judicial decision, they will speak out and seek justice for the people.

However, in just a dozen or so issues, the common people have seen the difference between the "Gongyi Bao" and ordinary newspapers, and they all think that the "Gongyi Bao" is a newspaper that is the main decision of the people, and its circulation has surged rapidly.

As a result, the performance of the "Gongyi Daily" also made the newspapers in Jiangnan and other places shine. Only then did they realize that the newspaper was not only full of clean characters, but also occasionally became a "blue sky". Although some newspapers have repeatedly spoken out for the people, unlike ordinary newspapers that speak out for the people on the one hand and defend the government on the other, the stance of the "Gongyi Bao" is inclined to the people, and it has repeatedly attacked the government. He will never stand on the standpoint of the government to defend the government.

And as the "Gongyi Daily" has repeatedly stood on the opposite side of the government and spoken for the ordinary people, it will always receive letters from the people, expressing their "grievances" in the letters. Sometimes, there are even people who can attract people to come to the newspaper to complain.

And for the government, the "Gongyi Daily" has become a problem. has become a thorn in the side of the government, making everyone uncomfortable. But there was nothing they could do. Because this group of people can always grasp the scale of the post-text very skillfully, so that the government has no way to grasp their handles.

This is probably what the group of frustrated people in the "Public Opinion Daily" are best at. They themselves are extremely good at writing, and they know how to use words against the government while protecting themselves. After all, they had experienced the literary prison of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so they had long learned to protect themselves, especially when the Ming Dynasty paid attention to the law in everything, and they learned to use the law to protect themselves.

As one of the founders of the newspaper, he also held a position in the newspaper, and in many cases, he had to be responsible for reviewing some sensitive articles, so as not to make mistakes and let the government seize the handle.

As soon as the carriage stopped outside the newspaper office. He saw a man sitting at the gate of the newspaper office, who was fairly neatly dressed, and now he saw no ragged beggars, for beggars would be exiled to the frontier or abroad. Therefore, even the lazy and poor people will clean themselves up.

Seeing someone sitting outside the newspaper office, Wang Shuren immediately thought, perhaps, this is the people who have come to redress grievances, and he has seen a lot of such people, but often after some investigation, the so-called "grievances" are often unreliable.

And this is also the place where he has to admire today, and now the rule of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the best time since ancient times. But the more this happens, the more we need to "keep up the good work".

"Is it difficult, another unreliable one?"

Frowning slightly, Wang Shuren thought to himself that although the circulation of the newspaper now exceeds 10,000, it has already gained some reputation in Jiangnan, but if it wants to further expand its influence, there is almost no possibility, after all, the "Gongyi Daily" relies on public discussion and "grievances", and without "big events", how can it have a reputation?

Of course, no one dares to make up the news, and this has to pay a price, spreading rumors and fabricating news in newspapers, and all shareholders will have their property confiscated and exiled overseas. The government has never been soft on this, and it is afraid that the newspaper will not dare to make up news.

There is no big news, and he can't make up news, so Wang Shuren has been a little depressed recently.

There's big news there?

Isn't it another trivial thing that is not worth mentioning?

Thinking of this, after Wang Shuren got out of the car, he immediately said with a close smile on his face.

"What is this old brother doing here? But have something to find a newspaper? The contemptible Wang Shuren is doing things in this newspaper! ”

"Really?"

The man stood up, looked at Wang Shuren and said.

"Sir, I'm here to avenge my grievances."

"Redress? What are your grievances? Moreover, this is not an official government, and justice should go to the government, right? ”

"No one in the government dares to accept my complaint, I want to sue the emperor!"