On 30 April, a truckload of "Tianjin Daily," which had already been prepared, began to be transported from Guangning Gate to the capital. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Zhi had been preparing these newspapers for three or four days, and in fact, the "Tianjin Daily," which Li Zhi had brought into the capital, was a specially selected April 25 edition of the "Special Issue on Tibetan Silver in Taifu Temple." On this day, the "Tianjin Daily" was full of articles, and all the contents of the report were all facts about the fact that the Taifu Temple hid Ma Zheng's money at the critical moment of the Jinzhou War and did not report it, which led to the almost defeat of the Jinzhou War and the almost annihilation of the 170,000 soldiers.

On this day, the Tianjin Daily was very short, with only one sheet of paper and four pages. In addition to the "Brief Statement" on the front page, which makes the general situation clear, the second, third, and fourth editions are some simple comments.

The brief description of the events on the front page is only a thousand words, but it occupies an entire page in large font. The full text is written in the vernacular, and the title is "Shameless Civilian Conspiracy Wants to Defeat Jinzhou in the Great War!" Jin Guogong led the troops to ask for the guilt! It introduces the process of bullying the monarch to hide Ma Zheng's silver at the critical moment when the Jinzhou War could drag down the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Wu Fu's four people plotted, and the officials of the household department and the Taifu Temple cooperated, and the intention of the four people: to defeat the Jinzhou War. At the end of the article, it is clear in a few sentences: The 160,000 troops of the Duke of Jin Guo surrounded the capital in order to kill these traitorous ministers.

The comments in the next three editions are also printed in larger fonts and are not long. The best commentators of the "Tianjin Daily" went into battle, trying to explain in the shortest possible space the despicable and far-reaching influence of the silver in the Taifu Temple, and the standard was "concise and concise".

Some expounded from the perspective of the lives of the soldiers on the front line, explaining how the 170,000 soldiers would be hunted down and killed if the Jinzhou Battle was defeated, and how many would be killed or wounded. Hundreds of miles from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan, the Qing army would not let go of any deserter. How many parents will lose their young children, and how many wives will lose their newlywed husbands.

Some elaborate from the perspective of Jiangshan Sheji, explaining how bad the situation of the Ming Dynasty would be if the Jinzhou War was lost. The commentator compared the remaining troops of the Ming army and the combat strength of the Qing army in detail, and pointed out that if Jinzhou is defeated, the Ming Dynasty will have little time.

Some commentators elaborated from the perspective of Chinese civilization, indicating that if Jinzhou is defeated, the Chinese clothes and crowns may not exist. How many people will the murderous Tartars enter the customs and kill! According to the speculation of the Han people in Liaodong, it shows that the number of Han people in the world who were killed by 1 or 20 million is probably less.

Some commentators elaborated from the perspective of the interests of the people, explaining that if Jinzhou is defeated and the Ming Dynasty dies, the Han people in the world will probably shave their hair and become slaves and become inferior people under the rule of the Tartars.

One page of the newspaper has just four pages, all in large characters, and the four pages together are only 5,000 words, but they have already clearly explained the benefits and disadvantages of the matter of the Taifu Temple's silver collection.

Li Zhi spent a few days printing 100,000 copies of such a newspaper in Tianjin, loaded ten truckloads and quietly transported them into the capital.

When they arrived at the gates of the major vegetable markets in the capital, Li Zhi's guards guarded the periphery to prevent the children of officials and gentry from storming the newspaper truck. And the guys of the newspaper office began to distribute newspapers to the people of the capital.

"Look at the newspaper! Read the newspaper! Tianjin Daily! It is about two million silver hidden in Taifu Temple, and the conspiracy wants to defeat Jinzhou in the war! Jin Guogong led the troops to ask for the guilt! Siege of the capital! ”

"Read the newspaper, read the newspaper, and you will understand why the capital suffered a military disaster!"

"Tianjin Daily, which doesn't need money, will know why the capital is fighting after reading it!"

It is very difficult to control public opinion in a place. The gentry in various places are the local leaders in various places, and they are the bread and butter parents of the scholars, and they often say the same thing in the local area. Moreover, these people often have family members who are armed, and they will openly and secretly sabotage Li Zhi's newspaper business, so that newspaper readers dare not come out to read the newspaper.

Li Zhi's newspaper often needs to be escorted by force if it wants to control public opinion in a place for a long time.

But it is a simple thing to spread a message and explain a simple thing, and it is a simple thing to spread in the newspaper of a certain day. Especially when the 160,000 border troops surrounded the capital, and the people were anxious to know why, they used concise newspapers to spread a fact at a point in time, like lighting a fire in a dry branch.

With a bang, the flames will burn.

The gentry were well-informed and knew why Li Zhi led his army to besiege the capital. This crusade against Li Zhi was completely just, and the gentry who hated Li Zhi certainly would not publicize this fact. In fact, at this time, all kinds of rumors were spreading in the capital, such as what Li Zhi rebelled, what Li Zhi wanted to clear the king's side, and what 160,000 border troops wanted to kill the king, all kinds.

The people basically don't believe this news. The Duke of Jin has always been the mainstay of the imperial court, and he has never been a businessman with little ambition. Why did you rebel all of a sudden? Moreover, the Duke of Jin and the general soldiers recruited from various places are not familiar with each other, why did they all gather these people to rebel together at once?

The speed of this collusion is also too fast. All the general soldiers who didn't know each other united to do a big thing of rebellion, how to distribute interests, how to divide the seats in the future, and even how to carve up the country, after half a month after the Jinzhou War, all reached a tacit understanding, and all trusted each other? It's unrealistic no matter how you look at it.

Moreover, the 160,000 border army Chen soldiers on the outskirts of Beijing did not attack the city, which did not look like a rebellion.

The rumors are mostly false.

So what is the truth? The people did not know, but they were anxious to know.

The "Tianjin Daily", which was distributed free of charge in the capital, was like a rain falling on a long dry day, which made the people's eyes light up. Although most of the people are illiterate, there are many people who have read books in the capital, and there are not more than a dozen literate people on any street? Don't have a few bookkeepers? Just grab a copy of the "Tianjin Daily" and take the newspaper to find these literate people.

The vast majority of these literate people who have no merit and fame are also from poor backgrounds. Although most of these literate people had a sense of superiority, they were closer to the gentry and were less willing to read newspapers for the common people. But as long as one person out of ten tells the contents of the newspaper, the people will know the truth.

The contents of ordinary newspapers do not involve the vital interests of the people, and unless they are disseminated by oral transmission by large-scale readers, it is difficult to spread the contents of newspapers to every household. Even if one or two readers read the content, the spread would only end there. So the gentry were easy to control.

But the situation is different at this time, for the people of the capital who have been affected by the war, the truth at this time is eager to know, and it is related to vital interests. As long as a scholar tells the people the news in the newspaper, the people can spread the deadly truth by word of mouth.

Hearing the shouts of Li Zhi's newspaper operator, the people rushed up one by one and snatched the newspaper. The newspaper operators distributed all 100,000 newspapers in the capital in 50 points one by one, and it only took half an hour to distribute all 100,000 newspapers.

There were sporadic children of the gentry who came out to obstruct the spread of the newspaper, but they were all put outside by Li Zhi's secret guards. By the time the gentry heard the news gradually reacted, an organized appearance wanted to prevent the spread of the newspaper, and the newspaper had all been sent out. Li Zhi's personnel anointed the soles of their feet and withdrew.

Soon, a few zealous literate people read the newspaper to the people. Then the people spread the word of mouth and spread the contents of the newspaper.

Why did the 160,000 border troops besiege the city, why were they so indignant, and what were the demands of besieging the city without attacking. Why the Battle of Jinzhou could have been won without a fight, how bad the silver was hidden in Taifu Temple, and who people to kill when the Duke of Jinguo led his troops to besiege the city, these truths spread throughout the city like a gust of wind.